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PATENTED DEC. 20, 1904.

. B. DES NOYERS & H. V-OHL.

CLOTHES LINE PULLEY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11,1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 20, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWVARD DES NOYERS AND HENRY VOHL, OF I/VEST HOBOKEN, NEWV JERSEY.

CLOTH ES-LINE PULLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7 '7 7,7 17, dated December 20, 1904.

Application filed November 11,1903. Serial No. 180,766.

To all whom it may concern:

ing is a specification.

Our invention relates to new and useful improvements in pulleys especially adapted for use in connection with clothes-lines; and its object is to provide a simple and light device of this character which can be readily fastened to a wall or detached therefrom and which is provided with means whereby when it is rotated the clothes-line can be moved backward and forward upon the supports provided therefor.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of our invention, and in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a clothes-line, its pulley, and supporting means. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section through the pulley, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the pulley.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is a support having a pulley 2 connected thereto, upon which is arranged an endless clothes-line 3. This line is wound one or more times about a drum 4:, which is secured, by means of a key 5, to a shaft 6, journaled in side plates 7. A crank 8 is fastened tending ears 13 at its free end. A bracket 14, is fastened to a wall or other suitable support 15 and has parallel hooks 16 formed upon its outer face, said hooks being spaced apart a sufficient distance to permit the tongue 12 to be inserted therebetween and the lugs 13 placed in engagement with the hooks. It will be understood that when the drum 4 is rotated by means of the crank 8 the clothes-line will be moved backward or forward, as desired. The tongue 12 can be readily placed in or removed from engagement with the hooks 1'6, and it will be seen, therefore, that the pulley can be easily attached to any suitable support provided.

In the foregoing description we have shown the preferred form of our invention; but we do not limit ourselves thereto, as we are aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and we therefore reserve the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of our invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is In a device of the character described, the combination with a bracket having parallel hooks integral therewith; of a tongue loosely mounted between the hooks, laterally-extending lugs upon the tongue and detachably engaging the hooks whereby a swinging movement of the tongue is permitted, a cross-pin extending through one end of the tongue, side plates, ears thereon connected by the crosspin and at opposite sides of the tongue, a shaft journaled in the side plates, a crank thereon, and a drum secured to the shaft and between the side plates.

In testimony whereof we afiiX our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDIVARD DES NOYERS. HENRY VOHL. Witnesses:

JOHN SINGER, MORRIS EIcHMANN. 

